Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
Dozens of Palestinians, during two solidarity stands in the cities of Al-Bireh and Tulkarm in the West Bank today, called on the international community, human rights and humanitarian institutions and the International Red Cross to urgently intervene to save the lives of prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, especially patients and hunger strikers.
Wafa Agency stated that the participants in the two vigils organized by the Palestinian prisoners’ institutions and national forces in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the two cities raised the Palestinian flag and pictures of the hunger strikers and sick prisoners, stressing the need to continue supporting the prisoners and solidarity with them in light of the violations and brutal practices they are subjected to from. The Israeli occupation authorities, amid deliberate medical neglect against them.
About 5,000 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails face harsh detention conditions, including about 600 prisoners who need urgent medical intervention.